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Super Parent LIFE HACKS!
As an avid Redditor, one of my favorite threads on the site is r/lifehacks. Yes, most of the life hacks are kind of lame, but sifting through the thread is like shopping at the Goodwill. You’ve got to sort through a lot of crap to find the treasure, and it’s truly golden when you’ve found an excellent life hack that’s perfectly tailored to you. A hack that you can apply to increase your efficiency, save time and money, or simply up the whimsy level in your daily life. As parents, we can especially benefit from the use of life hacks, and this article from Bored Panda compiles some of the…
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The Rent Is Too F*#%ing High! Housing Rights & Options
As a California native who could never quite convince herself to leave this great state, I’ve grown accustomed over the years to insane rental costs and the fine art of the Craigslist search for that apartment needle in the haystack. But in the past couple years, it’s gotten out of control. In fact, my current city of Sacramento had the largest rental rate increase in the nation for 2017 with an increase of 11% since 2016, prompting talks of rent control and other city-wide limits. People are flocking here from the Bay Area and driving up the cost of housing, but it’s not just a California/Silicon Valley problem. The recent housing…
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What does it REALLY Cost to Raise Them?
We’ve all heard the nightmarish inflated statistics. A recycled version of the same old clickbait that comes out each year: “It costs $500,000 to raise a child from birth to eighteen years of age, not including college expenses!” They’ll put you in the poorhouse before they’re even walking, they all say… It’s enough to send us single mamas running for the hills! Well, it’s not quite that terrifying, but according to the most recent report by the United States Department of Agriculture (latest released January 2017), it costs a middle class family in the United States an average of $233,610 to raise a child who was born in 2015…
